A new FPS that only cost $15 dollars, What?

If you’re getting tired of Modern Warfare 2 and I know alot of you are, you’re waiting for Black Ops or Medal of Honor or maybe even Halo: Reach. You might possibly be playing other games like Halo 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2 or heck even the original Modern Warfare. But about a week or two ago a new game from Zombie Studios was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace called Blacklight: Tango Down. I had heard of the game mostly from the coverage of E3 from Machinima, a youtube video game channel and I decided $15 for a FPS that has 12 maps heck why not go for it.

My first time trying to find a game was unsuccessful and it seems to happen a lot to me. I’ve only played Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch and on average of 1 out of 3 times are unsuccessful looking for games. But again that’s where the fact that its only 15 dollar comes in. But it is still really annoying when you want to play and it takes forever to just find a game. One time I was searching for a game of a Team Deathmatch and I got put into a game of Domination.

On to the gameplay, I wouldn’t say it is the most fluid gameplay ever. Its very unlike Modern Warfare 2 in this aspect. When you’re in close combat with another player, I would say it is practically up to luck on who dies because the framerate is only 15 FPS and that leads to confusing situations. The developers had to make the sensitivity high for this game so its hard to aim at things close and the hip fire and melee system can be atrocious at times.

However medium to long range shooting is fairly normal and it is definitely up to skill at this point. There are no noobtubes, it’s only your gun and you and maybe a grenade once in awhile. If you’re just starting out or haven’t played the game in awhile it will be a little tough because you need to get used to the aiming system which is unique because there are no iron sights in this game and the sights you get can be a little weird and hard to aim with, also the recoil you have to get used to which is unlike other games.

Another aspect which is different so that there is no camping is the hyper realty vision or whatever it is called, it allows to see the enemy’s position through a mask that you only have for a limited time and you can’t shoot with it on. It lets you know where everybody is so you don’t have to be in harms way. Its good for beginning players so you know where the other team spawns, because there is only one spawn point for each team which can be very problematic. On some of the maps in this game it is very easy to spawn trap, there are turrets that get players out of your spawn but right outside of the spawn there is generally two or three ways out and that’s not very hard to shutdown if you have good players, that is definitely a downfall to the game and makes me rage quit alot.

Other than the gameplay there is alot of customization on the guns, you can change the sights, the stock, the barrel and a little thing-a-ma-jiggy on the side of the gun which kind of annoys me actually, also there are a lot of camos like 100′s of them. So theres alot of customization.

I’m not going to give a full review on it because I haven’t played it nearly enough but if you’re tired of every other FPS, I’d give it a try. Its only $15 which is about 4 times less than a regular game and its around the quality of some of these $60 games. So if you’re looking for an average FPS, I’d suggest you buy it.

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I love what Xbox Arcade has for smaller game studios. I played a ton of really good, smaller games back when I had a 360. Often, they feel like “cheap versions” of larger budget games, but they still offered a lot of value.

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